[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 237 (Friday, December 8, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 77026]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-31350]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6613-5]


Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of 
EPA Comments

    Availability of EPA comments prepared pursuant to the Environmental 
Review Process (ERP), under section 309 of the Clean Air Act and 
section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act as amended. 
Requests for copies of EPA comments can be directed to the Office of 
Federal Activities at (202) 564-7167. An explanation of the ratings 
assigned to draft environmental impact statements (EISs) was published 
in Federal Register dated April 14, 2000 (65 FR 20157).

Draft EISs

    ERP No. D-COE-C35014-NJ Rating EU2, Meadowlands Mills Project, 
Construction of a Mixed-Use Commercial Development, Permit Application 
Number 95-07-440-RS for Issuance of a USCOE Section 404 Permit, 
Boroughs of Carlstadt and Monnachie, Township of South Hackensack, 
Bergen County, NJ.
    Summary: EPA raised significant objections to the applicant's 
preferred alternative and other alternatives due to adverse impacts to 
wetlands and availability of less damaging alternatives. EPA requested 
additional information regarding alternatives, air quality impacts and 
compensatory mitigation plans.
    ERP No. DR-IBR-K39049-CA Rating EC2, Coachella Canal Lining Water 
Project, Revised and Updated Information, Approval of the Transfers and 
Exchanges of Conserved Coachella Canal Water, Construction, Operation 
and Funding, Riverside and Imperial Counties, CA.
    Summary: EPA requested formal responses to comments sent on the 
original Draft EIS in 1994, and raised additional concerns involving 
monitoring of water quality, modeling of area-wide impacts, and 
consultation with tribal governments.
    ERP No. DS-IBR-K28019-CA Rating EO2, East Bay Municipal Utility 
District Supplemental Water Supply Project and Water Service Contract 
Amendment, New and Additional Information on Alternatives, American 
River Division of the Central Valley Project (CVP), Sacramento County, 
CA.
    Summary: EPA expressed objections regarding the level of detail and 
analysis of Alternatives 4 and 8, insufficient information on the 
impacts of wetlands, the potential growth inducing effects of the 
project, the absence of an analysis of how this project ties into the 
broader water allocation and ecosystem protection goals of CALFED and 
CVPIA, and how the water quality of the selected drinking water source 
will be protected. EPA requested that a greater level of detail and 
analysis be provided on these issues.

Final EISs

    ERP No. F-COE-E30041-NC, Dare County Beaches (Bodie Island Portion) 
Hurricane Wave Protection and Beach Erosion Control, The towns of Nags 
Head, Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, Dare County, NC.
    Summary: EPA continues to express concern regarding the adverse 
effect on the nearshore ecosystem caused by maintaining a given beach 
profile.
    ERP No. F-COE-K36129-CA, Santa Ana River Mainstem Project Including 
Santiago Creek, Proposal to Complete Channel Improvements along San 
Timoteo Creek Reach 3B to provide Flood Protection, San Bernardino 
County, CA.
    Summary: EPA expressed continuing concerns regarding analysis of an 
alternative that would have less adverse impacts to San Timoteo Creek, 
the full extent of cumulative impacts to San Timoteo Creek from Corps 
of Engineers' flood control projects, and mitigation to compensate for 
unavoidable losses to aquatic resources.

    Dated: December 05, 2000.
Joseph C. Montgomery,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. 00-31350 Filed 12-7-00; 8:45 am]
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